Istanbul, Please Lead The Way (Part 3) Monday, 1st May 2017, by AnimalCare View Pets For Adoption    |    Visit Website    |    View Original Article

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http://animalbehaviorassociates.com/blog/managing-street-dogs-cats-turkey/

Turks are very much against euthanasia of dogs and cats for “population control”.  This is in contrast to the U.S. where there has been very little tolerance of free-roaming dogs and where euthanasia of healthy but unwanted dogs has been a common, although controversial, public health policy for at least 50 years. This is changing in the U.S. today as the numbers of free-roaming dogs has declined and as public sentiment about euthanasia of unowned dogs has evolved.

The strategy being tried in Turkey is trap-spay/neuter-vaccinate/treat and release.  Free-roaming dogs are picked up off the streets and taken to local shelters where they are spayed or neutered, vaccinated for rabies and other diseases, treated for minor illnesses, ear-tagged for identification, and then released back to the neighborhood where they were trapped.

To Malaysian law-makers and politicians, please learn.